Preventing hate crime: funding for community projects

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3 August, 2017

Hate crimes are crimes that are motivated by hostility on the grounds of race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity and national origin), religion, disability, sexual orientation and transgender identity.

About the fund

The aim of the fund is to work with affected communities to fund the development of partnership projects that:

prevent hate crime

respond to hate crime in our communities

increase the reporting of hate crime

improve support for the victims of hate crime

build our understanding of hate crime

The Home Office is seeking to fund projects up to £50,000. Project delivery is expected in June 2018, with all invoices submitted by 31 March 2018.

We expect to fund up to 8 projects, but reserve the right to vary the number of projects we fund.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for motivated and creative community groups to work in partnership with other organisations to develop projects that help to prevent hate crime and issues associated with it. Your project development must involve stakeholders who are affected by, are past or potential perpetrators of hate crime, or those who support victims/perpetrators of hate crime.

Contacts

We require a contact (including organisation address and email address) from each organisation, and confirmation that the contact provided is over 18 years old. We reserve the right to carry out any checks required as part of our standard fraud prevention process, so please check that the information provided is correct. All organisations need to provide this.

Solicitor (for guidance document)

If you are successful and you are awarded a grant we may need a solicitor to confirm that under your governing document, your organisation has the legal power to run a project. Details of your solicitor are not required at the application stage.